Re: SAN storage practical list of options

2009-04-19 Thread Stephen
Off site storage is a given once figure that out This is quite interesting to say the least Thanks to all the varied input On 4/19/09, Bryan O'Neal wrote: > Have you thought about a private cloud instead? Using something similar to a > in house EBS solution you could add space on the fly, aggres

Re: SAN storage practical list of options

2009-04-19 Thread Bryan O'Neal
Have you thought about a private cloud instead? Using something similar to a in house EBS solution you could add space on the fly, aggressively cache for performance, and have it well distributed across your campuses. In addition I believe Ubuntu 9.4 Server even comes preconfigured with Eucalyptus

Re: SAN storage practical list of options

2009-04-19 Thread Stephen
Not likely to be doing av edits directly but we will need some fair io The server backend is likely to be a stack of xenservers. The best part is we will be building the datacenter from scratch On 4/19/09, Shawn Badger wrote: > You could either go with a NetApp or EMC solution and not make a b

Re: SAN storage practical list of options

2009-04-19 Thread Shawn Badger
You could either go with a NetApp or EMC solution and not make a bad choice on either, but be warned that you will be spending over $100K to get it up and running right. Are you going to be editing the video while it directly stored on the SAN or is the SAN just going to be a repository? If you a

Re: SAN storage practical list of options

2009-04-19 Thread Ryan Meldrum
On a slightly different note, I support a large san based off of HP EVA storage (~60tb) attached to a clustered GS320 running Tru64 Unix and another system HP GS1280) attached to the same fabric using an additional 24tb. Also a system running HPUX (two RX8620's) also attached to about 48TB. Th

Re: SAN storage practical list of options

2009-04-18 Thread Lisa Kachold
I didn't quote how many terrabytes per 9U server, as it varied, depending on 3Ware card population (multiple) and disk. BTW in the SAN/NAS industry Terrabyte capable doesn't simply mean ONE... On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Stephen wrote: > actually you cna do better than 3tb in a 1u... 8x5

Re: SAN storage practical list of options

2009-04-18 Thread Stephen
actually you cna do better than 3tb in a 1u... 8x500gb 2.5 in drives in a SuperMicro 1u or 6tb in raid 5 wiht the new 2tb drives coming. we will have a real budget for this. and the last thing we want is an array that has to continually rebuild. We have an openfiler box, but it does not seem to h

Re: SAN storage practical list of options

2009-04-18 Thread James Finstrom
Isn't that awesome 9U 1TB now 1U 3TB.. On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Lisa Kachold wrote: > The bottom line here is going to be cost, sounds like. > > You could go out to get EMC/Clarion, or Netappliance, yet if what you > really might be able to afford is going to come off of Fry's racks.

Re: SAN storage practical list of options

2009-04-18 Thread Lisa Kachold
The bottom line here is going to be cost, sounds like. You could go out to get EMC/Clarion, or Netappliance, yet if what you really might be able to afford is going to come off of Fry's racks. Go look at what they have? Unless you need a NAS like a Sun 2450 with fiber channel multipath I/O this

Re: SAN storage practical list of options

2009-04-18 Thread James Finstrom
We have built an NAS appliance around open filer which is suppose to do san stuff. I haven't played with it that deep but it may be worth googling On 4/17/09, Stephen wrote: > well i have a large project, I need to create a "growable" store of > data that is redundant as it will have archival med

Re: SAN storage practical list of options

2009-04-17 Thread Stephen
well i have a large project, I need to create a "growable" store of data that is redundant as it will have archival media (audio and video). both will be HD quality media. so i am looking at a large pool fo data. i can build a NAS box that will last a while, but it will hit a terminal point of cap

Re: SAN storage practical list of options

2009-04-17 Thread Alex Dean
On Apr 17, 2009, at 3:56 PM, Stephen wrote: anyone here using a SAN and if so what are they using, maybe some of the points that sold you on it? or i fyou hate it why? it would be nic to have real world thoughts on it instead of all the markey speak... Could you elaborate on the requirements

SAN storage practical list of options

2009-04-17 Thread Stephen
anyone here using a SAN and if so what are they using, maybe some of the points that sold you on it? or i fyou hate it why? it would be nic to have real world thoughts on it instead of all the markey speak... -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over